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AMD's RDNA 3 architecture is entering the mainstream.
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Sapphire's Radeon RX 7600 Pulse graphics card has been pictured - Mainstream RDNA 3
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AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
I think €250 is unrealistic. $250 is what everyone else is asking for, but $250 is not €250, not any more. I totally get your point, and it's a perfectly understandable stance, but I personally don't see it that way. If the card is $250, I expect it to be €300 here or thereabouts.
AlienALX
Well-known member
I know I should not say this, but I am hoping it does indeed cost that much. I really don't want to be "Bad Feeling" from Platoon, but yeah I am hoping this is indeed the Maxwell moment we were promised.
If it is indeed stuck on 8gb then tbh? it won't be worth buying if it costs a penny more.
If they do indeed attempt to shaft people I will go right on back to my default.
KingNosser
Well-known member
I feel it'll be £300+ it's just how it will be they wont sell and then slowly drop over time.
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
I know I should not say this, but I am hoping it does indeed cost that much. I really don't want to be "Bad Feeling" from Platoon, but yeah I am hoping this is indeed the Maxwell moment we were promised.
If it is indeed stuck on 8gb then tbh? it won't be worth buying if it costs a penny more.
If they do indeed attempt to shaft people I will go right on back to my default.
If it actually does cost €250, that would be incredible. Everyone would buy one, even those that don't need one. They'd buy one for them entertainment system, their server PC, their kid's PC, their backup, they'd stick one in their Tesla.
But €250 means it'll be £225. The RX 480 was that price. There's no way the 7600 is going to match a 6/7-year-old budget king RX 480 8GB. No way.
AlienALX
Well-known member
I suppose it depends on whether AMD want to actually compete and do what they have done in the CPU space. I mean, at some point they will want to. Or rather they will have to.
Mostly because they are still getting trounced on market share and sales.
Ironically whilst the 970 and 980 were Nvidias finest value for money GPUs ever Polaris was AMDs. Pretty much the same performance at a lower price.
In fact, I would bet that AMDs showings in the Steam survey, as pitiful as they are, are mostly those Polaris cards even today.
Open goal time at AMD.
Mostly because they are still getting trounced on market share and sales.
Ironically whilst the 970 and 980 were Nvidias finest value for money GPUs ever Polaris was AMDs. Pretty much the same performance at a lower price.
In fact, I would bet that AMDs showings in the Steam survey, as pitiful as they are, are mostly those Polaris cards even today.
Open goal time at AMD.
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
Yeah, saw that today. $299 is what I would expect, but like you I don't expect it to sell well at that price for many months. The 6700 has more VRAM, wider memory bus, and is the same price in many places.
I wonder do AMD even care though. It's a good two years now since RDNA2 came out, and a lot of us were complaining about the launch prices. Yet since then, AMD have sold most of what they could produce. If the 6700 is still being sold for $300-350, AMD are still making bank. If they release the 7600 at $300 and don't sell many, does it matter? Eventually the 7600 will start to sell. Even if it takes six months, why does AMD care whether they're selling a 6700 or a 7600? Profit margins could be very similar.
I don't think they care about the bad image it's creating. RDNA2 didn't give them a good image at first, and then they did nothing to help with the shortage other than ramp up production. But it hasn't stopped RDNA2 from being incredibly popular and giving AMD a good name.
AlienALX
Well-known member
TBH even at 299 it isn't horrible. The 970 cost around that or a bit less and too was hampered.
You're correct about the 6700 though. In the US you can get it for $297 and it has an extra 2gb vram on it too. Which is fine (10gb) at least now.
And no, I don't think they care about their image now either. I think the CPU space has gone to their head tbh.
What it will do, however, is bring the 6700XT used down to the same price I reckon. At which point it will be a no brainer.
You're correct about the 6700 though. In the US you can get it for $297 and it has an extra 2gb vram on it too. Which is fine (10gb) at least now.
And no, I don't think they care about their image now either. I think the CPU space has gone to their head tbh.
What it will do, however, is bring the 6700XT used down to the same price I reckon. At which point it will be a no brainer.
